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If you are a wine enthusiast, I would note that the wines served in the dining car--all Canadian, of course--are B list wines. But those served in the Park Car are a cut above. It wasn't till our second day that we discovered that you can ask for the Park Car wines in the dining car instead of...

I always book via a live agent on the AGR line, and so I wasn't surprised when the final tally on our Empire Builder trip this spring ended up much less than what I found online. Since we'd never done the Builder from Portland, I took advantage of the savings to go from Seattle to Portland on...

Sounds like Carnival has its act together on this matter. It should be up to the service provider to do the due-diligence, and other customers need not, and indeed should not, take it upon themselves to interrupt other patrons to ascertain whether their animals are service animals or not. Now...

On our October trip on the Empire Builder, tables were filled by the LSA. In fact, the preliminary announcements for the dining car warned people who wanted to dine together to present themselves together at the diner or else their places would be filled with others. I assumed that this was to...

No fridge magnets, though. My granddaughter will be disappointed...

Most of my border Canada-US crossings have been uneventful, but a couple stand out. Once I was going to a two day conference in Vancouver and had to leave Seattle at about four am to get there on time. So as not to awaken my husband, I kept the lights in the bedroom off as I packed my small...

It's a pain, that's for sure, especially for older or simply less spry passengers. If it happens, my strategy now is to head for the transdorm for relief, if the consist has one, since the crew definitely both are aware of the limitations of the onboard facilities and have a sense of...

The good, the bad and the ugly on our trip on the Empire Builder earlier this month: First the good: the staff on the trip were uniformly excellent: our room attendant welcomed us, warned us that our call button wasn't working but that we could contact him in his roomette for anything we...

Glad everything worked well for you.. For the benefit of others bringing infants on a train, here are the things I discovered.. Bring zip-top baggies, probably gallon size, to dispose of dirty diapers and wipes. That way you can contain any mess or smell, and make it safer and more pleasant for...

Another FYI on transdorms is that they tend to have cleaner bathrooms. We were in a sleeper this summer on the Southwest Chief where all the toilets in one car were kaput for the entire trip. We were instructed to use the toilets in the other sleeper, which, in a two day trip with two full...

Great link to a very useful and objective video review. We have traveled twice in the family bedroom with a grandchild. The first time was absolutely great for us; she was 18 months old and we brought a mini-crib/playpen on board, which fit fine when the beds were up, and gave her a safe place...

Since you are pressed for time and want to see as much uniquely American sights as possible, I would not recommend either surfing in California or a stop in wine country; you would need a wetsuit for surfing and in any event, Portugal provides better surfing anyway. Wine country in California is...

We just spent three days in San Diego on the tail end of a coast-to-coast Amtrak trip, and I highly recommend it. There is a good loop tour of the city on the Old Town Trolley, which has hop on, hop off stops at many of the major sights, including Balboa Park, which is a fantastic place to...

Definitely no Red Caps at NOL last time we were there, just before the Pandemic hit. My husband was using a cane at the time, and two other passengers could see he was having a bit of difficulty wrangling his carry-on, what with the cane. They offered to help him, even though one of the guys...

That is good news; glad the paper value tickets are finally history! Amtrak slowly crawls into the modern world...

I absolutely agree. And it should apply equally to airlines, that currently have next to no legal obligations to deal with delays and cancellations. Something like the EU regulations on passenger right would be a good place to start, in my opinion.

Disclaimer: not a transportation attorney, but I did teach torts and criminal law for many years. Indemnity is against public policy for criminal negligence, but not for tortious negligence. The difference between those kinds of negligence is that criminal negligence requires a gross deviation...

I haven't been through Emeryville since 2022, so things might have changed a bit. But at that time, the area around the station seemed quite safe to me. There are plenty of eating options within walking distance. How long were you planning to be in Emeryville? It isn't a particularly great...

Two summers ago, our neighbors had a flight booked that was potentially impacted by a hurricane, and the airline proactively emailed them to ask if they wanted to re-schedule. I think it was American Airlines, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if airlines took that approach...